Who the F*ck Cared!?

11:12 PM by Brian Norton

"In September 1997, Gen. Roméo Dallaire, said, "I haven't even started my real mourning of the apathy and the absolute detachment of the international community, and particularly of the Western world, from the plight of Rwandans.Because, fundamentally, to be very candid and soldierly, who the hell cared about Rwanda?" Gourevitch's answers are sobering: No one much cared what happened in Rwanda. Not nearly enough is being done to solve the problems of the country, where politically motivated mass killings continue. And no one except Rwandans -- depleted, haunted, utterly alone in the world -- are living with the consequences" This excerpt came from a credible web site's book review section. It speaks logical truth about the nature of the response to the Rwanda crisis, and genocide. Gourevitch says that nobody cared, and those who cared to take notice sat around in foreign lands with tea and scones. A horrible way to treat a struggling country. A country where a certain group of people are treated as a different species. We have seen this in same thing happen in the past, it was called the holocaust. Hitler would smile upon this and say that the killers were trying to survive in this world. This notion is a dangerous and destructive logical fallacy. Hitler replaces the idea of race with that of species...

Comments (1)


Taylor
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 3:46:00 PM PST  

Does the book give any reasons as to why nobody intervened?